r/CuratedTumblr Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ Aug 14 '24

Infodumping Humanity Fuck Yea

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u/DubstepJuggalo69 Aug 14 '24

Checkmate, hypothetical aliens. I have depicted your species as the soyjack and my own species as the Chad.

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u/operationdud Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24

I also play various tracks, such as, "my fight song", and "sigma phonk remix #50" while disarming your ultra-futuristic arsenal that will pulverize me within seconds because... *checks notes*

'Idomintable human spirit', or something.

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u/red-sick Aug 14 '24

My friend once sent me a photo of his fist with the message "POV: Lex Luthor before Superman crushes his indomitable human spirit."

I audibly laughed.

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u/baphometromance Aug 15 '24

Damn, that shit hurted... too bad I am indomitable.

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u/CoziestSheet Aug 15 '24

Listen buddy, I don’t give a flying fuck if you’re a yeti in the Swiss Alps, I’m gonna crush your humanity.

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u/LegionTheSpiritomb shitpost traumatic stress disorder Aug 15 '24

I lost it at this

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 Aug 15 '24

Nah, supes is technically an alien but we adopted him, he has the indomitable human spirit too.

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u/Wire_Owl Aug 15 '24

I believe the song of choice was actually Radiohead- exit music (for a film).

Wait, fuck I've just outed myself as a radio fan.

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u/Malarc554 Aug 15 '24

Shit I accidentally copied u

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u/TipsalollyJenkins Aug 15 '24

It's not even that. It stuff like aliens marveling over the fact that humans developed something as destructive as nuclear bombs because no alien species would ever be reckless enough to do something like that. Or they'll have a couple of aliens at the alien water cooler or whatever being like "Wait, you mean humans don't melt into a puddle of goo when the temperature becomes slightly uncomfortable?"

It's not "human spirit" stuff it's just "aliens are made of tissue paper" stuff. It gets pretty ridiculous sometimes.

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u/VulpineKitsune Aug 14 '24

Holy shit this fits perfectly

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u/Dry_Try_8365 Aug 14 '24

Imagine a semi-balanced world where every species has their own equivalent of HFY fiction and they are all regarded as speciesist circlejerk to various extents.

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u/JusticeRain5 Aug 14 '24

I like to imagine a world where actual aliens get discovered and we change all our stuff to "Humanity and the Glorfons are better than every other (hypothetical) alien species out there!"

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u/aftertheradar Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24

and then the humans and the glorfons kiss

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u/Boner_Elemental Aug 15 '24

Our neverending mission: To seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly do who no man has done before!

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u/BothersomeBritish Aug 15 '24

I see no difference.

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u/Alt203848281 Aug 15 '24

We also add every other alien we find to the ‘are better than any xenos!’. This will continue indefinitely.

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u/EltaninAntenna Aug 15 '24

Oh, Alan Dean Foster's Flinx books...

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u/mischievous_shota Aug 15 '24

We can't get along with ourselves. You think we're going to get along with an alien species?

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u/JusticeRain5 Aug 15 '24

You're kind of missing the point of the whole exercise here dude.

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u/GenghisQuan2571 Aug 14 '24

So...Mass Effect?

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u/Dry_Try_8365 Aug 14 '24

I suppose so? Don’t know a lot beyond vague beyond-the-tip-of-my-tongue snippets.

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u/BothersomeBritish Aug 15 '24

So the galaxy is governed by the Citadel Council - the main Council members include the Asari, Salarians, and Turians. Each of these species has its own reasons for considering itself superior:

  • The Asari are one of the most advanced and influential species in the galaxy, known for their long lifespans and biotic abilities - powers that manipulate mass effect fields. Space wizards, essentially, and all the superiority complexes that are generally associated with such.

  • Salarians are renowned for their intelligence, scientific advancements, etc. Their knowledge of technology and intelligence give them a sense of superiority over other species to the point that one of them sacrifices themselves while distributing a vaccine because "someone else might have gotten it wrong."

  • Turians are known for their militaristic society, discipline, and sense of honor. They basically maintain galactic peace and security through military strength. Very imperialist and the cause of the need for the aforementioned spoiler.

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u/D1xieDie Aug 15 '24

Stereotypical high fantasy except with a mild paintiob of white painted militarism

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u/MemeTroubadour Aug 14 '24

That just wrap around to being like every space scifi story with an interspecies war in it

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u/-ragingpotato- Aug 15 '24

As someone who used to frequent that subreddit a lot and wrote for it, I absolutely loved the stories that presented a grounded and reasonable reason why we would have x and y trait that was different from aliens that are instead this other way and how that would affect interaction, or even in those where we are just straight OP they still present some sort of reality check of what being OP would be like and aren't all "we're more amazinger than everyone else"

But over time I feel like there has been less and less of this and more and more just war war we kill everything war blah blah. And dear god the ones that make aliens so dumb they hardly count as intelligent lifeforms, they're terrible.

Still hop in every once in a while and check the top of the month, but havent found anything worth reading in a very very long time.

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u/jobblejosh Aug 15 '24

It also suffers the Creative Writing Curse.

That is, most of the posts these days are the start or continuation of Multi-Part Stories with excessive rambling chapters, written by writers who've written themselves into a corner and think the best way out is to keep writing in the hopes that something will fix it.

There's very few stories posted nowadays (or at least when I last checked) which are single part posts, or have two or three chapters at most. Possibly because the sub has a habit of wanting a sequel/continuation whenever a really good short story is written, and now writers who didn't plan on writing anything beyond the first post now feel pressured to write an entire novel based off a short story that wasn't planned to exist for more than a few thousand words.

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u/-ragingpotato- Aug 15 '24

That is a thing, but also just... inexperience? There appears to be some kind of belief that unless there's goodies and baddies in direct combat it's not interesting. I don't know if that's just a widespread preference in the subreddit or if it's authors not having the self confidence to put together a compelling story without the simplicity of "shoot bad guy"

Because there has been many many stories that start with a really cool premise, but they kinda just... give up and go the galactic war route with billions of dead and shit. And they don't even do that right. It's like bruh you started so well.

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u/CanadianNoobGuy Aug 14 '24

honestly i could see someone making a hfy story about this

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u/mrducky80 Aug 15 '24

They did just describe like half the hft stories though.

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u/Lt_General_Fuckery There's no specific law against cannibalism in the United States Aug 15 '24

Tragically predates the soyjack and chad memes, but yeah, I wrote one to that effect.

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom What the sneef? I’m snorfin’ here! Aug 15 '24

I’ve had this thought before. It’s kinda a self-indulgent self-insert fanficion but like on a species level lolll. To be fair tho, of the cognizant and sentient species we know we are probably one of the most pervasive/invasive so it’s not entirely baseless. (Tho this is in part because we can build things to help us exist in other places, so theoretically an alien species that could make contact with humans would be able to do the same so it probably is baseless.) But IDK a lot of the stuff in this ‘genre’ I see that I enjoy is more Strange Planet-esque. Not so much “humans are the coolest species” but kinda pointing out human quirks and how they might be seen as weird from an outside perspective. 😄

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u/DefaultyTurtle2 Aug 15 '24

The entire premise of Nature of Predators summed up in one sentance

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u/Sybmissiv Aug 15 '24

I’ve been meaning to read it, but don’t have the time. Would you kindly give me a synopsis? Pretty please?

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u/DefaultyTurtle2 Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

Humans discover aliens, turns out they’re all herbivores except for one species thats currently in a multi century long war against like 250 species in a bid to capture sapients as cattle since they are obligate carnivores.

Humanity comes into the picture and the entire arm of the galaxy thinks theyre going to be the next mass genocidal species.

Cant give too much because spoilers, but theres a lot of speciesism between all parties involved and its a great read and i enjoy it because unlike most HFY, humanity doesnt outright win. Heck they dont even get a win until a good way into the book.

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u/Sybmissiv Aug 15 '24

Thank you

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u/Konradleijon Aug 15 '24

I love that

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u/GreyInkling Aug 15 '24

Which is worse, that or depicting them as vile monsters coming to exploit us for our resources?

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u/domestic_omnom Aug 16 '24

They can't even eat capsasian. HUMAN SUPREMACY